Horse stepping on themselves - ideas for back boots

[Darkstar]

I have a silly mare - who doesn't overreach from back to front - but she gets a bit clumsy with her back feet. Standing in the crossties she will promptly use her rear right foot and step onto the side of her right foot (right above the hoof). She's also been doing this while walking under saddle. Just being clumsy I guess. But today it opened up a pretty good size gash.

I am wondering what I can put on her back feet to prevent it. It's not like I can just throw on a pair of bells for overeaching (because it isn't quite that...plus its in her hind). I also don't have a pair of hind SMBs or else I would use those.

So polo wraps or maybe even a pair of hind Eskies (fetlock boots). I am just worried the fetlock boots may not cover the area she is gashing into.

Suggestions for a clumsy horse?

[Proffie]

At the eventing barn I used to ride at, a lot of people used bells on the hind feet for cross country as extra protection. I don't think that's too weird, and they're cheap and wouldn't collect dirt and sweat like SMBs. Plus they cover the coronary band, which it sound like is what you're trying to protect. I'd just do that.

[luckeys71]

My older mare is very close behind and will sometimes hit the inside of her opposite pastern with her hoof and leave a sore. I usually rode her with SMBs on the back. The old model thick ones. She'd brush the boots together before hitting herself and that semmed to keep her from hitting herself. I felt like they were too hot for the summer (she had heat issues, anyway), so I had good luck using galloping boots. Neither of those boots, actually, cover the area, but they seemed to keep her hoof far enough away, so she didn't hit herself. At one point, she was wearing egg bar shoes on the back, so I did use bell boots on the rear to keep her from stepping on them.

[baysngreys]

I have 2 horse that each came to me with "permanent" sores on their hind, pastern area.

Problem was with the way they were shod/trimmed.

A proper trim and chiropractor work and neither have "stepped on themselves" in almost a year.

[JstMyLuck3]

I'm just putting this out there... but if it happens an awful lot and it's not b/c of shoeing, she might have something neurological going on.

One of my horses does the same thing (just one of a couple symptoms) and I am in the process right now if getting to the bottom of what's wrong with him... I had the vet do a neuro test on him and he did come up not right on his left side.

[TheHorseProblem]

There are two solutions I have used and they both work. One is a fetlock ring, which looks like a big black doughnut, and put it around the fetlock of the most stepped on foot. The other is a air of Prof. Choice ballistic no-turn bell boots. My mare who got the fetlock ring stopped giving her self strawberries when she got more fit. The other horse we put the bell boots on just travelled really close behind. I hope that helps!